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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: PowerSnap vs the OS/2 2.0 clipboard.
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m94@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 11:28:19 PST
- Organization: TAP
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- Encouraged by Dan Stephenson and Jerry Scheckel's (sp?) glowing
- descriptions of the OS/2 clipboard, I dug into the on-line docs to
- try it out. One interesting fact is it doesn't seem to be possible
- to clip stuff from the on-line doc viewer.
-
- Anyway. It works using Mark/Copy/Paste menu items. Not all
- programs support the clipboard. Such programs have these items
- forced on them by the OS, in their control menu, though this only
- seems to happen for command sessions (ie, CLIs). So if you want to
- clip the text under an icon, or the text in a menu item, or the
- text in a window title bar - you are stuck.
-
- This is LAME LAME LAME compared to PowerSnap. It is useless. The
- cut/paste scenarios I described in a previous article, between
- MicroEMACS and VLT, would be MUCH harder and MUCH more tedious
- between MicroEMACS and TE/2 under OS/2.
-
- Argh! Gak! Ptui! It's a real disappointment, and IMHO completely
- wipes any kind of validity from previous arguments about useful
- support for cutting and pasting.
-
- Do the OS/2 users out there know of a utility that works like
- PowerSnap, where any text matching a font known to the OS can be
- snapped from anywhere, and the resulting text stream fed into any
- program that accepts keystrokes? With the snapping action being as
- simple as holding down a button while marking the text, double-
- clicking on words, or triple-clicking on lines?
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- *** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
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